| History of My Life: Volumes 5 and 6 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt (Author), Trask, Willard R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0801856647 ISBN-13: 9780801856648 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1997 Annotation: "These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents." -- J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | European - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97070304 |
| Series: History of My Life |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 5.12" W x 8.06" (1.49 lbs) 688 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire. Because every previous edition of Casanova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete original text was published in six double volumes between 1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears in paperback for the first time. |